Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for April 1, 2022
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Many days there are far too many anniversaries, holidays, and observances to post about individually on social media, so in an effort to have more of them available, LLPHP is going to experiment with posting them daily here. If there are other items you feel should be included, please email contact@llphp.org and share!
Please note all holidays and observances listed as “National” days are American holidays and observances unless it is stated otherwise.
On This Day
- National Atheist Day
- National Love For Our Children Day
- 1663: The town of Gemert in modern Netherlands fined unwed mothers a 50 guilder penalty
- 1792: Etta Palm demanded women be given the right to divorce their husbands
- 1853: Cincinnati became the first US city to employ full-time professional firefighters
- 1863: The first wartime conscription law in the US went into effect
- 1881: Anti-Jewish riots took place in Jerusalem
- 1905: “SOS” was first adopted as the Morse Code distress signal (· · · – – – · · ·) by the German government
- 1931: An earthquake devastated Managua, Nicaragua and killed 2,000 people
- 1933: Nazi Germany began persecuting Jews by boycotting Jewish businesses
- 1941: Nazis forbade Jews access to cafés
- 1946: 400,000 US mine workers began a strike
- 1946: Tsunami waves generated by an earthquake in Alaska’s Aleutian Trench struck Hilo, Hawaii
- 1948: The Faroe Islands received autonomy from Denmark
- 1954: An earthquake and tsunami ravaged the Aleutian Islands, killing 200 people
- 1955: The government in Amsterdam took military action against people engaged in a bureaucratic strike
- 1970: US President Richard Nixon signed a bill limiting cigarette advertisements after January 1st, 1971
- 1971: The United Kingdom lifted all restrictions on gold ownership
- 1973: Japan allowed its citizens to own gold
- 1973: John Lennon and Yoko Ono said they formed a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, with silence as its national anthem
- 1980: New York City’s Transit Worker Union 100 began a strike lasting 11 days
- 1983: Anti-nuclear demonstrators linked arms in a 14-mile human chain in England
- 1991: The US Supreme Court ruled jurors cannot be barred from serving due to race
- 2001: The Netherlands became the first country in the world to make same-sex marriage legal
- 2001: Former Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milošević surrendered to arrest by police special forces on charges of war crimes
- 2002: The Netherlands legalized euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so
- 2011: After protests against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people, including eight foreign workers
- 2020: US President Donald Trump said the US Strategic National Stockpile was almost depleted amid widespread shortages of medical equipment to fight COVID-19
- 2021: Seven democracy protesters convicted for unauthorized assembly in Hong Kong
Weekly Holidays and Observances including April 1, 2022
- Golden Rule Week (April 1-7)
- Medication Safety Week (April 1-7)
- Testicular Cancer Awareness Week (April 1-7)
April Monthly Holidays and Observances
- Lent (March 2 – April 14)
- Orthodox Lent (March 7 – April 23)
- Deaf History Month (March 13 – April 15)
- Alcohol Awareness Month
- Arab American Heritage Month
- Cancer Control Month
- Celebrate Diversity Month
- Cesarean Awareness Month
- Community Service Month
- Community Spirit Days
- Counseling Awareness Month
- Defeat Diabetes Month
- Emotional Overeating Awareness Month
- Financial Literacy Month
- Genocide and Human Rights Awareness Month
- Grange Month
- International Amateur Radio Month
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Awareness Month
- Listening Awareness Month
- Move More Month
- Multicultural Communication Month
- National Anxiety Month
- National Autism Awareness Month
- National Child Abuse Prevention Month
- National Distracted Driving Awareness Month
- National Food Month
- National Garden Month
- National Parkinson’s Awareness Month
- National Pest Management Month
- National Pet First Aid Awareness Month
- National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month
- National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month aka Sexual Assault Awareness Month of Action
- STI Awareness Month (Sexually Transmitted Infections) aka National STD Awareness Month aka National Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD)’s Education and Awareness Month
- National Sjogren’s Syndrome Awareness Month
- Physical Wellness Month
- Rosacea Awareness Month
- Stress Awareness Month
- Summer Tire Changeover Month
- Testicular Cancer Awareness Month
- Workplace Conflict Awareness Month
- World Habitat Awareness Month
